William Banfield
Software Engineer at chronosphereio
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Banfield is a software engineer based in New York with a decade of experience building reliable backend systems and contributing to high-profile open-source projects. He has practical expertise in distributed consensus and reactor components, evidenced by contributions to Tendermint Core where he improved lock handling, round-state logic, and performance testing tooling. Comfortable navigating production stability challenges, he focuses on making complex, concurrent systems more robust and observable. An Oberlin College computer science graduate, he pairs a liberal-arts perspective with hands-on engineering rigor. Outside of work he brings a pragmatic, quietly confident approach—summed up simply as “pretty cool”—that helps him collaborate effectively across teams.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at Oberlin College
French, English
Github Skills (8)
consensus10
distributed-systems10
go10
blockchain10
testing10
dockers7
docker7
cryptography5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tendermint/tendermint
Jul 2021 - Dec 2022
⟁ Tendermint Core (BFT Consensus) in Go
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1301 reviews, 1934 commits, 347 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:William contributed to the Tendermint Core, focusing on consensus mechanisms and reactor components. Their work involved implementing and refining lock handling within the consensus state to manage potential panics, along with adjustments to the reactor for round state handling. They also added a loadtime tool for performance testing and updated the changelog for a release.
golangcryptographybftconsensusethereum
williambanfield/zsh
Feb 2019 - Dec 2024
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
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